Being an adult should involve more stuff like this:

Jet-powered merry go round [Youtube video, courtesy boingboing]

This. This is why I love Heidelberg. D'you see?


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It seems that the Macintosh Portable has just turned 20 years old. I remember getting to play with one of those when they were new! While hardly portable by modern standards, I'd love to add one to my collection. Anyone got one gathering dust ( Read more... )

This time, Trabant[1] Rallying [Youtube].

Nice recovery!

[1] East German car made of "recycled material, cotton waste from Russia and phenol resins from the East German dye industry" and featuring until 1990 a 2 cylinder 2-stroke engine.

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Today, courtesy of her free ticket, ms_saffie and I went to the AMOC Autumn Concours event at Mapledurham (a stately home near Reading). Lots of shiny metal there, including the new Aston Martin One-77 (pictured) - a limited run of 77 cars, 7.3litre V12, (are you sitting down?) £1.2 million...

Complete set of photos here, on flickr.


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brrm most definitely does have room for:

Road-legal bumper cars. Supposedly capable of 160mph :-O

This arrived through my letterbox today. I'm pretty sure I don't have room for that many:

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Some of you might know that I was enough of an early adopter to get the username art on Twitter. Today, my client flags up the following message because it mentioned my name. I get a lot of these, usually referring to art-the-noun. However, this one seems to want me to give him my username with no readily apparent benefit to myself:

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